What does STAY ALERT mean to you?

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The new slogan - Stay Alert....

Alert to what? Is the virus going to break into our homes?
Listen out for someone coughing then run a mile from them.

What on earth does Stay alert actually mean?

At least Stay home made sense stay alert means nothing at all or AIBU?

It wasn't like Italky or Spain but a watered down version

Ah so NOW we get to the OP's real point. We didn't do lockdown hard enough or properly! There wasn't enough SUFFERING OR MISERY and this new message means EVERYONE WILL DIE.

@Buscake You need to look up what eugenics is.

Reminds be of a silly sign joke thing my mum had in the 80's "be alert. The world needs more lerts"

Decades on every time I hear "stay alert" my brain says "we need more lerts".

It is a meaningless soundbite. It also sows the seeds of blame: when you get Covid19 it will be because you weren't alert enough.

The UK lock down was loose and watered down as the government wanted it that way.

If they had wanted a tighter lock down, they'd have introduced quarantine for incoming flights, closed pubs, restaurants and other large gatherings quickly and unambiguously.

They'd have immediately introduced a universal income - which would be much easier to implement than the various schemes they did introduce - so that people in jobs which employers could deem to be essential like construction could stay at home and off public transport rather than have to do to work to be paid.

They wouldn't be leaking information about schools due to be re-opening or announcing that 'we're over the peak' or any of the 'stay alert' stuff that's been leaked today.

So what it means is that people in salaried white collar jobs will be much more likely able to keep themselves and their families safe by continuing to wfh, while manual workers, those on zero hours contracts, older people and others who are vulnerable will remain very susceptible to the virus.

It's another wishy washy confusing and silly part of the uk govts covid response "plan".

I guess they'd like people in an even higher state of anxiety.

It also sows the seeds of blame: when you get Covid19 it will be because you weren't alert enough.

Unfortunately I think you're spot on with this.

Not at all PineappleDanish

I don't think everyone will die. Most people won't as can be seen it the statistics. I get the point of staying home to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed and to protect the elderly/vulnerable

Not really sure why they need a new 'slogan' which has been confirmed as the new message on the news at present.

I think the new slogan is purposely wooly so that the ones who are vulnerable and the scared can interpret their way and the ones that are fit/healthy and unlikely to die will interpret it their way...

Hence we all behaved differently and according to our own health needs and risks we are prepared to take.

They are fighting a 'losing battle to stay at home' and so had no choice but the change the message or else what - arrest people/issue fines.... a gradual loosening up of the message until most will start going back to work etc

Nicola Sturgeon has tweeted to say that she had not heard of the new slogan until seeing it in the papers. Apparently she won't be using it.

Oh no please don’t bring the ‘lerts’ thing back it was not funny the first time around.

Perhaps like our system of terrorist threat alert we can just continually live at 'CRITICAL' or 'SEVERE' or 'SUBSTANTIAL' until it becomes meaningless.

I assume they have to get rid of the stay at home bit if they are relaxing lockdown so more people can go to work and possibly schools opening up more.

There was a thread the other day talking about other countries’ slogans, I am sure one translated into something like ‘stay at home don’t kill your granny’.

I think it means ‘don’t be complacent’. As we start to ease the lockdown and other restrictions ‘stay at home’ doesn’t really work anymore. I can see lots of people thinking that this easing restrictions means there is no risk anymore. So ‘stay alert’ makes perfect sense to me, it means the risk is reduced but not eliminated so don’t forget about staying 2m apart, regular hand washing, isolating when you have symptoms, etc

It's obvious what it means, unless you're properly thick or just being deliberately obtuse. Let's be honest, whatever the government says or advises at the moment, most people are going to slag them off.

Never mind 'Stay Alert', at least it is better grammar than 'Stay Home', which has been a constant source of irritation; I'm tired of shouting at the TV, 'Stay AT Home.'

It means be alert to the fact that the virus is still here and you can still catch it, so continue to stay 2m apart from other people, only go out if it's essential (to go to work, to buy food, to visit the GP, go the pharmacy, go out for exercise), continue to wash hands frequently and use hand sanitizer. If you think you have symptoms, self isolate to protect others.

Be alert to the fact that visiting DM and MIL (who are both over 70) could result in them catching Coronavirus from you (MIL lives alone so even if she doesn't end up in hospital on a ventilator she will have nobody to look after her if she gets sick at home so she needs to be alert to that fact if she starts going out and seeing visitors).

That lockdown is over in it's current form. That we don't have to stay at home any more and we can leave home as long as we are vigilant to social distancing/hand washing rules.

Sky are reporting it as this as well and that the message is 'get back to work now'.

I think it means ‘don’t be complacent’ - nice idea, but unless the message is FUCKING STAY AT HOME or even FUCKING STAY 2 METRES APART then complacency is the norm, particularly after all the parties this weekend. I was told to "Stay safe" over and over again by neighbours who were sharing food wind and possibly bodily fluids with people they don't live with, and "Stay Alert" is just yet another meaningless slogan, by jingo.

Umm sorry they were sharing food and wine. I imagine there was some wind though ...!!

Let's be honest, whatever the government says or advises at the moment, most people are going to slag them off.
Maybe ask yourself why that is? Many of us think government advice has been inadequate and untimely, and that they have been reactive rather than proactive. We are an island and could have used that fact wholly to our advantage. We didn't. We have an appalling death rate. I feel quite entitled to 'slag them off'.

Check what colour my town is obsessively every few minutes to see if it’s changed

It had to be a short word so they could sticker over the existing banners ..... ALERT is similar in length to HOME. (Said only slightly in jest).

I don't know. To me stay alert refers to scanning the environment for danger but it's missing the bit about 1) what constitutes danger - someone sneezing, a busy shop, a group of people? And 2) what to do if you do detect danger.

There a scale in terms of both the attitude to risk i.e. what you class as a risk, and what is a reasonable response. 'Stay alert' is very subjective IMO.

It's quite obvious. You need to continue being a Lert. If you weren't one before, you need to become a Lert as soon as possible. Simples.